Wow, it's quiet here with all our chattiest members at BABE! Too bad, because I feel like having a bit of company.
I slept wrong on my arm or something because my left arm is totally hosed today - I can't even move it, although my fingers are still working. Boy howdy in the pain department, too. So, I did absolutely no beading today. But last night, I felt the need to make a necklace, and made a really cool three strander: black bicone A/B crystals and Hill Tribe silver. DD is having a slumber party, and the necklace is in the living room, so there aren't any pictures to be had.
My DH is on his semi-annual "out with the boys to play cards, drink and smoke cigars night." They're way the heck on the other side of Massachusetts, so I reserved him a room at a nearby motel - don't want him driving after his night of foolishness. He'll be home in the early afternoon, and maybe we can go for a ride. I'm getting a bit stir crazy after being in the house for almost three weeks.
Talked to my Tante Lia this morning - I was asking about Oma, and casually mentioned that Oma probably hadn't been all that compliant about regular blood sugar testing. Boy, was I wrong about that! Tante Lia decided that she wasn't leaving something so important to chance, so when she gets up and lights the stoves (my grandparents don't believe in central heat), she lays out all my grandparents' medications and the testing supplies. Then, as soon as they get up, Oma get sher finger poked. At night, when Lia banks the stoves for the night, they do the same thing.
I'm impressed. Tante Lia has always been a bit of a milquetoast, but she's really kicking some fiesty grandparent butt. I told her that I was so proud of her, and to keep it up. Once the arm calms down, I think I'll drop some jewelry in the mail to her as a little pick me up.
Oh yes, as a sign of my further descent into beading madness, I was pausing the movies that SJ sent me to look at the beadwork on the Russian Characters on an episode of Mystery Science Theatre. All the unmarried women seem to be wearing some sort of beaded headband/tiara sort of thing, and it looks like a really neat project. I'll have to do a google search to get some better pictures.
Well, those are all the random beady and non beady thoughts I'm having at the moment. I think I'll go back to bed for my next 90 minute stretch. (Since this last asthma exacerbation, I can only sleep for an hour and a half at a time before I wake up gasping) Anyone else awake and willing to post?
Kathy N-V